Does the pixel count give rough estimate of a movie?

[advancedgeek]

Does the pixel count give rough estimate of a movie?

For example if you have a DVD which is usually 720 X 576 which if you multiply together to get the pixel count which is 414720 which is roughly size of a DVD (4.7GB) disc in kilobytes if you multiply it by 10. This also seems to work for Blu-Ray (25GB) too which is 1920 X 1080 and get a pixel count of 2073600. I tried it with VCD but that doesn't seem to work as 352 X 288 will give 101376 which is 1.5 times more than what a VCD would hold 650MB or 700MB.

I know sometimes I just think about stuff and some of them really makes sense and some may be plain old stupid jokes or just not worth posting here lol. I wonder if anyone else had this idea or something.

 

[peterhuang913]

This doesn't make any sense. The pixel count doesn't matter in movies. Its the format and the size it takes up per second of play. Each media medium has a different format and a different amount of movie time per space. Another factor that affects the size a movie takes up is the bitrate. Bitrate and screen size are two different things. FPS also accounts into this.